Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Tankersley. You may be able to find further references to Tankersley in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tankersley	parish and township	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Tankersley.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bromley	hamlet	Bartholomew
BROMLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Finkle Street	hamlet	Bartholomew
FINKLE-STREET	a hamlet	Imperial
Hermit Hill	hamlet	Bartholomew
Howbrook	hamlet	Bartholomew
HOWBROOK	a hamlet	Imperial
Pilley	village	Bartholomew
PILLEY	a hamlet	Imperial
Smithy Fold	hamlet	Bartholomew
Wortley	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Tankersley within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Birdwell	0	2
Mortomley	0	2
Thorncliffe	0	2
Hoyland Nether	0	3
High Green	0	2
Thompson Hill	0	2
Lane End	0	1
Potters Hill	0	2
Chapeltown	0	2
Worsbrough	0	2
Elsecar	0	2
Wortley	1	2
Thorpe Hesley	0	2
Ratten Row	0	2
Wentworth	4	2
Stainbrough	0	2
Wentworth Castle	0	2
Whitley	0	2
Hemingfield	0	2
Hood Green	0	2